Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it… — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child… — Kathryn Sansone Copy Share Image
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen,… — Mark Mendoza Copy Share Image
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball.… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them.… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said,… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
![“It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and…” quote by Dick Vitale](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5eb/dick-vitale-14709_blessed_it-was-tough-getting-fired-by-the-nba-i_1190596.jpg)
